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Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:46:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Kirchner <davidk@accretivetg.com>
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To: Drew Sanford <lauasanf@wilderness.dyn.dhs.org>
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Subject: Re: Enabling softupdates remotely?
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On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Drew Sanford wrote:

> Is there any way to enable softupdates remotely? Since tunefs -n can't
> be run on a mounted filesystem, and you can't unmount /usr, /var, or /
> in multi-user mode, can this be done, or does one have to be at a
> terminal to do it?

The way I've done it is by adding the "/sbin/tunefs -n enable foo" lines
just before the set -T line in /etc/rc.


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